tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087071723357292956.post-16189889074811734522009-01-05T12:20:00.004-05:002009-01-05T12:26:18.685-05:00<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Wall Street owns the country.<br />It is no longer a government of the people, by the people,<br />and for the people, but a government of Wall Street,<br />by Wall Street and for Wall Street.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Mary Ellen Lease, 1890</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Howard Zinn quotes a larger excerpt from Lease's speech in </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">A People's History</span><span style="font-family: arial;">, but this sentence sums it up. Don't think I need to comment except that there is a horrible comfort in knowing things never change. The truth frees one to follow other pursuits.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7087071723357292956-1618988907481173452?l=www.dinakeratsis.com%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>Dina Keratsishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157671083272855255dina@dinakeratsis.com0